Results and Materials:
Healthcare –
Let’s Inspire Each Other
2026 – Day 2

Nurses’ Education and Mental Health

Katarína graduated from a secondary nursing school in Levoča, after which she worked for three years as a nurse in an intensive care unit in the Czech Republic. She currently works as a specialized nurse in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in the United Kingdom, where she has lived for 21 years. Her primary responsibilities include supporting families and patients in complex situations and communicating with physicians. She also leads a counseling service for patients recovering from critical illness and provides supportive/recovery-oriented clinical supervision for nurses and other healthcare professionals. In her career and studies, she focuses primarily on psychology, communication, mental health support, and palliative care. Katarína is currently studying a leadership course—the Chief Nurse Fellowship Program—and in June 2026 she will begin a new position as a Specialist Nurse in Oncology, which will also open up opportunities for further professional study and skill development.

Clozapine and Genetic Testing

Helena Aziri, MD, MSc, MRCPsych

Helena is a consultant psychiatrist at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Before moving to the United Kingdom in 2012, she completed her medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, alongside a master’s degree in French language and literature and marketing communication at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University. She worked at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University Hospital in Bratislava, where she conducted research on schizophrenia. She is currently collaborating on a project focused on the treatment of treatment-resistant schizophrenia with Professor David Taylor of King’s College London. In her daily practice, she supervises medical students and physicians in training. Helena is the founder of the Association of Slovak Healthcare Professionals in the United Kingdom. In the fall of 2026, she will begin teaching the course Global Psychiatry to international medical students at the Faculty of Medicine at Comenius University.

Alternative Forms of Hospitalization for the Elderly

Edita Searle, MD, MRCPsych

Edita Otáhalová Searle graduated from the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2011 and worked as an adult psychiatrist at the Sussex Partnership until 2019. After moving to Gloucestershire, she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and specializes in geriatric psychiatry. In addition to her clinical practice, she is actively involved in research, teaching medical students and junior doctors, as well as conducting interviews for medical schools

Fibromyalgia and the Mind-Body Approach – Evidence-Based or Wishful Thinking?

Martina Ziegenbein, MD

Martina Ziegenbein, MD, is a rheumatologist certified in both rheumatology and internal medicine. She graduated from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice in 2000, completed her residency at St. Joseph Hospital/Marshfield Clinic, a rheumatology fellowship at Boston University Medical Center, and a lupus fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. After more than twenty years of clinical practice, she founded the Whole Health Rheumatology of Cape Cod clinic, where she specializes in inflammatory arthritis, autoimmune diseases, and chronic pain—including fibromyalgia and neuroplastic pain conditions. She has advanced training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy and collaborates with the Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms (ATNS). She is originally from Krompachy and has been practicing in the United States since 2001.